Niger

See also niger, and Nigeria

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Frequently misidentified as derived from the Latin niger (“black”), Niger is derived from a series of mistranslations and geographic misplacements by Greek, Roman and Arab geographers, likely originally from Ptolomey's descriptions of the valley Gir (a wadi in modern Algeria), and the "Lower Gir" (or "Ni-Gir") to the south. In one local Berber language, "gher" means "watercourse", and thus may have been derived from Berber tales of large river south of the Sahara desert.

Pronunciation

River

• (RP) IPA: /ˈnaɪdʒə/, X-SAMPA: /"naIdZ@/
• (US) enPR: nījər, IPA: /ˈnaɪdʒɚ/, X-SAMPA: /"naIdZ@r/

Country

• (RP) IPA: /ˈnaɪ.dʒə(ɹ)/, /niːˈʒɛə(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /"naIdZ@(r)/, /ni:"ZE@(r)/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(r)
• (US) enPR: nījər, IPA: /ˈnaɪdʒɚ/, /niːˈʒɛɹ/, X-SAMPA: /"naIdZ@r/, /ni:"ZEr/

• Audio (US)

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Usage notes

The second pronunciations for the country name follow the French pronunciation, French being the official language of Niger.

Proper noun

Niger

1. A country in Western Africa situated to the north of Nigeria. Official name: Republic of Niger.
2. A river in Africa that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria.

Translations

country

• Arabic: النيجر (ar) (al-nijir) m
• Armenian: Նիգեր (hy) (Niger)
• Bengali: নাইজার (bn)
• Breton: Niger (br)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尼日爾 (cmn), 尼日尔 (cmn) (Nírìěr)

• Czech: Niger (cs) m
• Danish: Niger (da)
• Dutch: Niger (nl)
• Esperanto: Niĝero (eo), Niĝerlando (eo)
• Faroese: Niger (fo)
• Finnish: Niger (fi)
• French: Niger (fr) m
• German: Niger (de)
• Greek: Νίγηρας (el) (Nígiras) n
• Hebrew: ניז'ר (he) (nijer) f
• Hindi: नाइजर (hi) (Nāijar)
• Hungarian: Niger (hu)
• Icelandic: Níger (is) n
• Interlingua: Niger (ia)
• Irish: An Nígir (ga) f, Poblacht na Nígire (ga) f
• Italian: Niger (it) m
• Japanese: ニジェール (ja) (Nijēru)
• Kalenjin: Naija

• Kamba: Naija
• Kikuyu: Naija
• Korean: 니제르 (ko) (Nijereu)
• Latgalian: Nigereja f
• Latvian: Nigēra (lv) f
• Luhya: Naija
• Luo: Naija
• Macedonian: Нигер (mk) (Níger) m
• Meru: Naija
• Norwegian: Niger (no)
• Persian: نیجر (fa) (Nijer)
• Polish: Niger (pl)
• Portuguese: Níger (pt)
• Romanian: Niger (ro) n
• Russian: Нигер (ru) (Nigér) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Нигер (sh) m

  Roman: Niger (sh) m

• Spanish: Níger (es)
• Suku: Template:hb: [[ניז'ר (nijer)#|{{|lang=hb|ניז'ר (nijer)}}]]
• Swahili: Nijeri (sw)
• Swedish: Niger (sv)
• Thai: ไนเจอร์ (th)
• Turkish: Nijer (tr)

river

• Esperanto: Niĝero (eo)
• Greek: Νίγηρας (el) (Nígiras) n
• Icelandic: Nígerfljót (is) n
• Igbo: Òrìmili
• Japanese: ニジェール川 (ja) (Nijēru-gawa)
• Macedonian: Нигер (mk) (Níger) m

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Нигер (sh) m

  Roman: Niger (sh) m

• Slovak: Niger (sk) m
• Swedish: Niger (sv)
• Turkish: Nijer (tr)

Related terms

• Nigerien

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world

Anagrams

• reign
• renig

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Czech

Proper noun

Niger m

1. Niger (country)
2. Niger (river)

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Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

Proper noun

Niger

1. Niger (country)

Declension

Declension of Niger (type risti) singular plural nominative Niger – genitive Nigerin – partitive Nigeriä – accusative Niger Nigerin – inessive Nigerissä – elative Nigeristä – illative Nigeriin – adessive Nigerillä – ablative Nigeriltä – allative Nigerille – essive Nigerinä – translative Nigeriksi – instructive – – abessive Nigerittä – comitative – –

Derived terms

• nigeriläinen

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

• IPA: [niʒɛʁ]

Proper noun

Niger m

1. Niger (country)

Derived terms

• Nigerien

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German

Wikipedia ^de

Proper noun

Niger m and n

1. Niger (country)
2. Niger (river)

Derived terms

• Nigeria
• Nigrer
• Nigrerin
• nigrisch

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

Niger m

1. Niger (country)
2. Niger (river)

Derived terms

• nigerino

Anagrams

• negri
• regni

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Latin

Etymology

From niger (“black, dark”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈni.ɡer/

Proper noun

Niger (genitive Nigrī); m, second declension

1. A Roman agnomen, or "nickname"
   • (Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger, Aquilius Niger)[1]

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	Niger	Nigrī
genitive	Nigrī	Nigrōrum
dative	Nigrō	Nigrīs
accusative	Nigrum	Nigrōs
ablative	Nigrō	Nigrīs
vocative	Niger 1	Nigrī

¹ May also be Nigre.

Proper noun

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Niger (genitive Nigris); m, third declension

1. the river Niger in Africa [2]
2. the country Niger

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	Niger	Nigrēs
genitive	Nigris	Nigrum
dative	Nigrī	Nigribus
accusative	Nigrem	Nigrēs
ablative	Nigre	Nigribus
vocative	Niger	Nigrēs

Alternative forms

• (river): Nigris

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Niger

1. Niger (country)

Related terms

• nigerer
• nigerisk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɲiɡɛr/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Niger m

1. Niger (country)
2. Niger (river)

Declension

    declension of Niger

	singular only
nominative	Niger
genitive	Nigru
dative	Nigrowi
accusative	Niger
instrumental	Nigrem
locative	Nigrze
vocative	Nigrze

Derived terms

• (#1) Nigerczyk m, Nigerka f
• adjective: nigerski

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nîɡer/
• Hyphenation: Ni‧ger

Proper noun

Nȉger m (Cyrillic spelling Ни̏гер)

1. Niger (country, river)

Declension

    declension of Niger

	singular
nominative	Niger
genitive	Nigera
dative	Nigeru
accusative	Niger
vocative	Nigere
locative	Nigeru
instrumental	Nigerom

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Swedish

Proper noun

Niger

1. Niger (country)